March 09, 2012

Bali Island



Bali is the name of a province in Indonesia and also the name of the largest islands that are part of the province. In addition consists of the island of Bali, Bali Province is also composed of islands surrounding a smaller, namely the island of Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan Island, the island and the island of Nusa Ceningan attack.

Bali lies between Java and Lombok Island. Denpasar is the provincial capital located on the southern island. The majority of Balinese are Hindu. In the world, Bali is famous as a tourist destination with a unique variety of art-culture, especially for the Japanese, and Australia. Bali is also known as Thousand Island Island of the Gods and temples.

Bali is part of the Lesser Sunda Islands along the 155 km in length and is approximately 3.2 km 112 miles from the island of Java. In astronomical, Bali is located at 8 ° 25′e/23 ° South latitude and 115 ° 14′03″n 55 ° East Longitude which makes it a tropical climate such as Indonesia.
The highest point is Mount Agung in Bali as high as 3.148 m. volcano last erupted in March 1963. Mount Batur also one mountain in Bali. About 30,000 years ago, Mount Batur erupted and resulted in a catastrophe that strikes the Earth. In contrast to the North, the southern part Bali is irrigated lowland rivers.


Based on the relief and topography, in the middle of the island of Bali lies a mountain range that extends from West to East and between the mountain there is a cluster of volcanoes including Mount Batur and Mount Agung and gunung berapi does, namely mount Merbuk, Mount Patas and mount Seraya. The presence of the mountain caused the Balinese is geographically divided into two parts that are not the same, namely North Bali with narrow lowland lacking ramps and Bali and South with broad lowlands and ramps. Slope land Bali consists of flat land (1-2%) covering 122.652 ha, undulating land (2-3%) covering 118.339 ha, land is steep (15-40%) covering 190.486 ha land and very steep (> 40%) covering 132.189 ha. The province of Bali have 4 (four) pieces of the Lake which is located in the mountainous area, namely Lake Tamblingan, Buyan, Ya and Lake Batur.

The capital of Bali is Denpasar. Other important places are the Ubud Art Center located in Gianyar Regency, while Kuta, Sanur, Seminyak, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua are some places become destination tourism, beach tourism as well as a good resting place.
The total area of the province of Bali is 5.636,66 km2 or 0,29% area of the Republic of Indonesia. Administratively the province of Bali is divided into 9 districts/cities, 55 701 village/districts and subdistricts



Bali has no railway network but the excellent road network available especially to areas of tourist destination. Most of the population have a personal vehicle and choose to use it as a mode of public transportation is not available, except taxi.

Types of public transportation in Bali, among others:

Gig, a vehicle using the horse as a towing
-Taxi, taxi motorcycles
Minibus, serving domestic and intercity
Taxi
Komotra, buses that serve the region travel to Kuta Beach and surroundings
Buses, InterCity relations, rural, and antarprovinsi.
Bali is connected with the island of Java with the ferry service that links the port with the port of Ketapang in Gilimanuk Banyuwangi long tempuhnya about 30 to 45 minutes. Crossing to the island of Lombok via port of Padangbai towards the port of Sheet that takes about four hours.
Air transportation is served by the Ngurah Rai International Airport with destinations to a number of major cities in Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Japan. Runways and airplanes which come and go can be seen easily from the beach.

Clothing area
Clothing Bali area indeed varies widely, though it briefly looks the same. Each region in Bali has a hallmark of a symbolic and ornaments, based on activities/rituals, gender and age of users. The economic and Social Status of a person can be found based on the style of clothing and jewelry she wore ornaments.


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